The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-06-09

They are Extended to tho Children by
the Sunday-School Woriers Of the
United States and Canada-Second Days
Proceedings Of tho Great Convention .at
Chicago.
CHICAGO, June 3-Yesterday mornings
session of the International Sunday
school convention was taken up in dis
cussing better methods of organization.
Addresses were made by Rev. w. h Bal.
ley, of Kentucky; Rev. ]. E. Gilbert OF
Indiana; w. H Hall, of Connecticut; e.
G. Wheeler, of Oregon; Rev. DIR. Gram
mar of Maryland; D. B. Ward, of Dakota,
and R. s. Mott of Minnesota
The Nominating Committee presented
partial report of the candidates for vice
president and members of the Executive
Committee for each State and Territory,
and for Canada and Nova Scotia The
committees selection Of B. F. Jacobs, OF
Illinois, for an other term as chairman of
the Executive Committee was received
with applause.
At the afternoon session the attendance
was not so large as in the morning, owing
to the fact that the primary session was
being held at Farwell Hall missionary
Sunday School Work." was the subject of
the address by Rev. ]. A Worden, D. D.,
of New Jersey. He said that the Ma
tion was threatened by great evils. such
as intidelity, intemperance, anarchism
and other curses, and this notwith-
standing the great work that the
churches were doing. There were now
in this country 9,oOo,0 900 boys and girls
who were outside the pale of the Sunday
schools, and unless something was done to
bring them under the influence of the
Christian religion the Nation would go
down. If the Bible was lived up to 1t
would solve the problem OF capital
and labor. They could not settle it by
laws or by the police force, though
he honored the Chicago policemen Of last
year, who fought the battle Of law and
order AMI of civilization.
Preceding discourse on "Sunday-
School Temperance by Rev. d. c. Miner,
of Kansas, a memorial from the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union, asking the
convention to express its sentiments on
| the propriety of teaching scientific
temperance in the public schools; on
| the establishing Of free kitchen and kin
| dergardens; on prohibiting the sale of to-
bacco to children; and on devising some
| means to protect and keep pure children.
| The memorial was referred to the Execu-
| tive Committee.
| An Iowa delegate offered a resolution bid
ding the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union hearty Godspeed in its efforts to
secure scientific instruction in the public
chools on the effects of alcohol and mar
| cotics on the human system ana pledging
the union the assistance of the Iowa peo-
| Pile. The resolution went to the Executive
| Committee.
| At the evening session, after q service
| of song and prayer, an eloquent address
on Teaching and Upbuilding'' was deliv-
cred by Rev. Moses S. Hoge, Of Virginia.
It was then proposed, and carried by &C.
clamation, to forward a telegram of con
| graduation to Queen Victoria on the oc
| casion of her jubilee. The convention
recognizes that during a gracious reigr
of fifty years her Majesty has been ar
earnest defender and advocate of the Bible
as the foundation of the Christian religion
and a living exempliicatiou of the favol
of God" "God Save the Queen" was
sung, all standing.
Rev, M. B. Wharton, Of Alabama, then
delivered what is acknowledged to b, tn,
most eloquent oration of the convention
His theme was ''The Importance of tn,
International Sunday-school Wolk to tn,
South. " He demonstrated tn,
changed condition of the South
and its outgrowth from sectionalism
could swallow the whole country" h
i'd, "but it got glorionsly swallowed fo
its pains. We of the South are a new peo
pie. We are ready and eager to receiv
new ideas. We want no Anarchism, NJ
Socialism, no Nihilism, no Mormonism, bu
for ideas that will raise and dignity US a
people we open our arms and exalt ou
voices in grateful praise"